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Museo Orto Botanico di Roma

About the Museo Orto Botanico di Roma

The Botanical Garden of Rome is one of the museums of Sapienza University of Rome. It covers an area of about 12 ha in the city, between Lungara Street and Gianicolo Hill. This is an archaeological area – Ager Vaticanus – which, in ancient times, was a suburban territory, crossed by streets with their succession of tombs and villas. Lanciani, on an archaeological survey in 1900, called this area, Horti Getae, following the finding of a property of Septimius Severus in the area around Porta Settimiana (between Via della Lungara and Villa Lante). The Botanical Garden is located in the Palazzo Riario-Corsini garden since 1883. The plane area of the Botanical Garden respects the Palazzo Riario-Corsini historical garden, enriched with trees, among them several palms bordering the main avenue. There are numerous historical greenhouses, among them are the Monumental Greenhouse (1887), The Corsini Greenhouse (1800), The French Greenhouse (1883) and the Orangery Greenhouse (1930). The Tropical Greenhouse was built in the 1990s. Among the present collections there are the Palms, the Gymnosperms, the Mediterranean Wood, the Bamboo Collection, the Rose Garden, the Garden of the Senses, the Fern Valley, the Mediterranean Garden, the Garden of “Simples” (medical plants), the aquatic plants and the Japanese Garden.